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By now, anyone who cares knows that EMC sold Syncplicity to Skyview Capital. But there's much that hasn't been said.
First off, it’s a bit of a farce to suggest that Syncplicity failed to thrive as an Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) provider — it was the leader among Leaders in Gartner’s most recent

Good things come from connecting the dots.
That’s what Elastic’s products help companies do. Based on open source projects Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK), Elastic’s commercial products are leveraged by an impressive list of organizations to do some equally impressive things.

Apple, under Steve Jobs leadership, was known for its secrecy — very little was known about the iPhone, for example, before it was officially unveiled. Microsoft, under Satya Nadella’s leadership, may go down in history for its propensity to leak information. There was the acquisition of calendar app Sunrise that

While much of the drama in the Hadoop world of late has surrounded the Open Data Platform (ODP) initiative, there’s progress outside of it, too. Today MapR announced that its Hadoop distribution now ships with Apache Drill 1.0.

When we think of companies that set the bar for security and privacy, Dropbox may not be the first that comes to mind. But it may be one of the leaders in the industry, at least if today’s announcement is an indication.

We’ve all heard it said the data is the new oil. But what if it’s the new soil instead—the raw material from which new ideas can grow into products and services that we haven’t seen before and might not even have begun to imagine.

Companies have talked about being close to the customer for a long, long time. But they probably never imagined being as proximate as in your shirt or shoes. But that’s exactly where Under Armour is today, at least if you choose to wear the company's data-enabled garments.